A New York State trooper holds a burnt cap of a guard taken hostage during the Attica uprising in September 1971. In 1973, lawyers representing 1,281 inmates filed a $2 billion class-action ...

A new documentary goes behind the walls of the deadly 1971 uprising. Attica filmmaker Stanley Nelson and former prisoner Arthur Harrison reflect on the five-day revolt, and its lasting legacy.

When a helicopter flew over the yard at Attica Correctional Facility on Sept. 13, 1971, five days into a takeover of the prison by its 1,300 inmates, some of the prisoners thought it held New York … ...

The vacant prison yard strewn with debris at the Attica State Correctional Facility in Attica, New York, on Sept. 14, 1971 Santi Visalli Inc. / Getty Images By Heather Ann Thompson May 26, 2015 4: ...

ATTICA, NY-- Three inmates at the Attica Correction Facility are accused of killing another inmate. Shawn Avery, 35, Bruce Battle, 33 and Devin Gray, 22 were charged with murder and conspiracy on ...

The Village of Attica in western New York is warning citizens a 4.5 foot Nile monitor lizard is roaming the town. It is an escaped pet, officials said.

New York state prisons cannot keep the Pulitzer-winning history of the 1971 Attica uprising from incarcerated men and women under a settlement.

ATTICA, N.Y. — New York State Police say two inmates at the Attica state prison have died of apparent drug overdoses the same day. The men, ages 25 and 51, were found in separate cells at the… ...